The Center’s Emergency Preparedness Program

The Center for Health Affairs' Emergency Preparedness program plays a key role in improving the level of emergency preparedness in Northeast Ohio by working with area hospitals to increase their capacity and capability to respond to and recover from natural and man-made disasters.

The Center’s work to improve emergency preparedness in Northeast Ohio has four major components:

Since 2003, The Center’s emergency preparedness experts have served as the regional healthcare coordinators for 27 acute-care hospitals over a five-county region including Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake and Lorain. In this role, the team assists hospitals in strengthening their abilities to respond to disastrous events through planning, coordination, collaboration and grant administration.

Funds for this emergency preparedness program are made possible by the Ohio Department of Health, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and grant funding, which has been used to increase and sustain capabilities in the following federal and state initiatives: